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I used Reg. First Aid Platinum to remove entries for "Acronis", and "trueimage"- would you believe there was 409 of them? It left 3 on board that referred to "devices".

I removed the leftover files in the drive that contained ATI's program, and, removed whatever else I could find in Vista's folders that I could access.

I made a restore point at this time, just to be cautious.

Rebooted.

Installed ATI once again. It asked for both my new key (for 11), and, my old key (for 10)- this is a clue that you might be going in the right direction?

I had made a backup of both my HDs to a new 750 Gb Seagate external drive prior to the above steps.

ATI again did not let me create a "backup location". I cursed a bit, and, almost decided to use Retrospect , or even worse the Memeo program that came with the Seagate Freeageat Pro.

But, my next step was to create a backup task using the backup folder I made on the FAP drive. Previously, I had tried to create the backup location before this, only to have the program freeze again (holy s**t) !!!!! I have looked at the documents for the program, and, ATI's KB, FAQs and forum without finding any info on taking steps in any logical (illogical?) way- except it seemed to me that a first step would be to create a backup location, and then, use it to do more advance things!

Boy, was I surprised when the create backup location progressed after picking a "backup location" and once again let me define parameters for the location.

I am surprised that no one from Acronis has answered my cry for help, and, so far, my request for technical help by Email.

It may be that I still am not using the program correctly, and, that when I need to restore some data it will not work. But, I EXPECTED MORE FROM ACRONIS THAN WHAT I HAVE RECEIVED SO FAR IN SUPPORT!!!.

I have checked the forum part that should send me "instant replies", but, so far this has not worked for me.

Here is a post I made to a problem I have had with ATI 11/10 that was not addressed by any ATI gurus. My problem was the inability to create a "backup location" for the prgram could use to do it's thing (make backups).
I have used untold hours trying to solve the problem.

I have been using ATI for years with debatable results.

Anyhow, here is my story- which is a copy of a post I made below to my original cry for help.

FWIW, here is what I did to hopefully solve the problem.

I uninstalled ATI.

I used Reg. First Aid Platinum to remove entries for "Acronis", and "trueimage"- would you believe there was 409 of them? It left 3 on board that referred to "devices".

I removed the leftover files in the drive that contained ATI's program, and, removed whatever else I could find in Vista's folders that I could access.

I made a restore point at this time, just to be cautious.

Rebooted.

Installed ATI once again. It asked for both my new key (for 11), and, my old key (for 10)- this is a clue that you might be going in the right direction?

I had made a backup of both my HDs to a new 750 Gb Seagate external drive prior to the above steps.

ATI again did not let me create a "backup location". I cursed a bit, and, almost decided to use Retrospect , or even worse the Memeo program that came with the Seagate Freeageat Pro.

But, my next step was to create a backup task using the backup folder I made on the FAP drive. Previously, I had tried to create the backup location before this, only to have the program freeze again (holy s**t) !!!!! I have looked at the documents for the program, and, ATI's KB, FAQs and forum without finding any info on taking steps in any logical (illogical?) way- except it seemed to me that a first step would be to create a backup location, and then, use it to do more advance things!

Boy, was I surprised when the create backup location progressed after picking a "backup location" and once again let me define parameters for the location.

Bob_T, please accept our profound apologies for the delay with the response and for not having the issue resolved in time. However we are glad to know that the problem has been solved and that Acronis Software works fine for you now.

If you have any further questions concerning our software, please feel free to contact us any time and we will do our best to assist you as soon as possible.

Thanks for the link, and help. The link oulines what I have been doing without success. Only, after as an example trying to create a backup location such as c:\backup as suggested, the next thing that happens is a new blank window appears with the ATI program locked up. I have to close it with the Task Manager! In other words, and as I have been saying- I am unable to create a backup location in the way that the ATI documents, and your link describe,

Alexi- I am still waiting for a response from your tech support to my issue from an Email request sent last week!.
It is appreciated that you did respond to my cry for help.
But, you did not get involved in explaining why I am not able to create a backup location in the way ATI describes with both ATI-10 and ATI-11 with Vista HP. I did not have this problem with ATI-10 or 11 when I was dual booting them.
How am I supposed to know that what seems like a work-around is a solution to the problem I have been outlining?
I am worried that when I have a problem where I need to recover some files or even worse , ATI will not be there if I need it.
Alexi- I really would like to have a little more feedback on this issue!

Well- looks like I got overly enthused about being able to create a backup location.
Since posting above, I tried to create a backup location for my Outlook Email data and settings. Could not create one no matter what I tried.
Sure hope Alexi happens to drop by again!! I seem to be right bac where I started, except for the one Backup location I was able to create with backup parameters (size, number of BUs to keep, days).